Captain America Brave New World is bad. Really, really bad. (Mild spoilers.)

[DetlefK]

The movie-makers think that you are dumb. That's the gist of it.



The writing is inexplicably bad.
The movie slathers you in clunky exposition that slows down the tempo and flow of a scene, and then forces the story onto you via unexplained plotholes. This is a detective-movie in which the protagonists do not DISCOVER information. Instead it drops into the plot out of nowhere ALL BY ITSELF whenever it is necessary to move the plot forwards.
For example: 5 assassins try to kill President Ross. All of them get arrested alive. Immediately the heroes run off to wild-goose-chases, not even thinking about interrogating these assassins for clues.

There are no stakes.
For example: Sam Wilson, a normal guy, gets stabbed multiple times, gets his bones broken, gets slammed into walls multiple times so hard that he should end up in hospital with a concussion, and he just walks it off. How am I supposed to feel suspense over the hero getting hurt when the movie shows the hero as being invincible for no reason?

Being mad at the people who hurt you is considered unreasonable.
The "villain" is a victim who wants to get back at their abuser. He doesn't want money or power or to kill people. He wants to destroy his abuser. And that makes him a bad person.
The same argument goes for Isaac Whatshisname. He was illegally imprisoned by the US Government for 30 years and they did medical experiments on him... and then his friends tell him to just be happy and to stop thinking about it.

The social pandering to minorities is LIP-SERVICE AND FAKE.
For example: Minorities being invited to a White House event is celebrated as some sort of historical turning-point, as if that's how social progress is measured.
For example: The most PATHETIC pandering to minorities is the strongest in one of the final scenes. We finally learn the background of the latino protagonist: He grew up in some quaint, irrelevant place in the middle of nowhere where nothing ever happened and he always dreamed of getting out of there and making it. That quaint little village is... Miami. Which makes our latino protagonist THE POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE KIND OF LATINO: A Cuban-American. Because God forbid that a dirt-person with mexican or south-american heritage become a superhero.

Normal people do not exist.
In Black Panther 2, the Wakandans and Atlanteans wage war on each other in the streets of the US. Nobody cares.
The Wakandans ambush a CIA prison-transport in the middle of the US. Nobody cares.
In CABNW, the Celestial island appears out of nowhere. Nobody cares.
WWIII almost breaks out. Nobody cares.
The freshly-elected President not only turns out that he has done truly horrible things in his past which never came up during the election, he also turns out to not be a normal person but to secretly be a Hulk. And nobody cares.

Normal people are irrelevant, opinionless sheep who do as they are told.





Also, the trailers gave away the entire finale.